We Did Not Cancel Admission For Any Session – JAMB Says

…Insists on non-cancellation of admission sessions

BY TEMI OHAKWE, ABUJA – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has declared that the Board has not cancelled any admission for any session neither did it direct any institution to cancel any admission.

Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who stated this on Thursday, specifically said that the Board did not direct any institution to cancel any admission, stressing that no session has elapsed or will elapse its period.

Prof. Oloyede also said that admission for any particular session would be determined by the Senate of the various universities.

The Registrar of JAMB, who stated these in Abuja while declaring open the National Executive Council (NEC), meeting of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), specifically said that no admission has been cancelled for any session in any school.

Oloyede further said; “Only the Senate of a university can do that. We have all admissions going on, they have not lapsed and it is now for the institutions to determine which and how to go about it.

“I want to use this opportunity to appeal to not only parents but to just contact the institution of their children to know where they are and then contact JAMB for whatever is necessary for proper documentation of their admission processes”.

The JAMB Registrar also said that the affected universities, polytechnics and colleges of education must find a way to streamline all the existing academic programmes prior to the strike which the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), had embarked on but called off recently.

Oloyede stressed that students’ admission lies in the individual universities administrations, noting that about three different sessions are being run by various universities concurrently and must be concluded within their own stipulated timeframe.

He said that while some universities are still in their 2020/2021 academic session, others are in the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 academic session, adding that candidates seeking admission have to interact with the respective institutions they applied to study to know the particular session being ran at the moment.

In his words; “Now that some normalcy is being restored in our tertiary institutions, particularly with regards to the Universities, many people have been asking which session is being run, how do we get students back to campus? Please the onus of recruiting, engaging, admitting students lies virtually in the respective institutions.

“JAMB is a coordinating centre. JAMB cannot and will not determine how universities conduct their admissions. You are aware that some universities and some special institutions are still on their 2020-2021 academic session, some are on 2021-2022 academic session while some are in 2022-2023 academic session, so we have three academic sessions running concurrently in different parts of the country.

So, my advice which I want to send through you is that candidates should interact with their respective institutions, know which session is being run, which session is being patched and contact JAMB only for making sure that all their claims are validated.

Oloyede affirmed that JAMB has no control on admission processes by universities.